I have an issue of my own though hopefully somebody can help with.
On a newer laptop I've downloaded a new wallet and replaced the wallet.dat file with the one from my old wallet.
There is still over three years to catch up on however I had earlier transactions than that which I would have thought would be shown by now. Is this a sign that something has gone wrong or does it need to sync right up to date?
Can anybody tell me whether I need to wait for my new wallet to completely sync before the transactions from my old wallet show in the balance?
Ah, I've worked it out.
I had renamed the backup wallet.dat file as something else which caused the new wallet to create a new wallet.dat even though I had already deleted it.
Deleting that and renaming the original back to wallet.dat has solved the problem and I see my quarks.
I thought I'd type this in case anybody has the same problem in the future.